Epistemological (knowledge) fallacies

Various fallacies and misconceptions about what one knows or can know, and what constitutes knowledge in the first place.

Induction

Fallacy of eliminative induction / Sherlock-Holmes Fallacy

A probable explanation that was established by a process of inductive elimination is (erroneously) understood as deductively true.

Ecological fallacy

A fallacious inference in which a statistical characteristic is inadmissibly transferred to a level of aggregation lower than that which it actually describes.

Categorisation

Continuum fallacy

The (erroneous) rejection of categorizations on the grounds that the variations described can also be described as a continuum.


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